Career Q & A

Q: What is one piece of advice you would give to someone interested in the radiology field?

A: One piece I would give to someone interested in this career field is that I would highly recommend for people to do their research and shadow, observe, and see if its what they really want to do with their life, cause it can be a very demanding field at times.

Q: What classes did you take in high school that you feel helped you the most in radiology?

A: I’d say the one class that helped me out the most was biology. Learning body systems and how they work.

Q: What skills are important for someone looking to work in radiology to have?

A: Skills that are important to have a successful career and be a good radiologist is paying attention to detail, customer care, being a professional and taking care of your patient and patience, I’d say lots of patience because some people can be difficult and its important to have patience for everybody and treat everybody as if it was your mom, your grandma, your dad. It’s how you want to be treated, basically that's how you should be treating other people.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: What I like most about my job is the technical aspect of it, that I get to interact with my patients and I am able to do the best service I can to every individual patient.